后疫情时代日本数字化转型政策的思考

Research on Japan’s digital transformation policy in the post COVID-19 era

回顾了2000年后日本政府在数字化转型方面的政策和制度,包括历时20年的数字政府实施计划,指出新冠肺炎疫情中身份卡和生活补助金发放面临的问题,暴露了日本过去数字化政策的短板和不足,这构成了新冠肺炎疫情后日本新政府推进数字化转型政策的起点;阐明了日本新冠肺炎疫情后数字化转型政策的三大方向:下调移动通信资费、实施5G推进计划和设置数字办公厅;最后,在总结新冠肺炎疫情后期日本政府出台的一系列移动通信产业改革举措的基础上,进一步思考了日本数字化转型政策的必要性和意义,并对隐藏在体制背后的日本移动通信产业存在的结构问题进行了探讨。

This paper reviews Japanese government’s digital transformation policies and systems after 2000,including 20-years digital government implementation plan.Problems faced by the unique identification card and living allowance payment during the COVID-19 have exposed the shortcomings and challenges of Japan’s past digital policies.Lessons from this constitute the starting point for the new Japanese government to promote its digital transformation policy in the post COVID-19 era.This article also clarifies three major directions of Japan’s digital transformation policy in the post COVID-19 era:reducing mobile communication tariffs,implementing 5 G promotion plans,and setting up an independent digital agency.Based on the findings of a series of mobile communication industry’s reform measures introduced by the Japanese government in the post COVID-19 era,this article further considers the necessity and significance of Japan’s digital transformation policy and addresses the structural problems of the Japanese mobile phone industry hidden behind the system.